Participação comunitária na gestão das queimadas descontroladas no posto administrativo de Mapinhane - distrito de Vilankulo

Abstract

This paper presents the report of the internship conducted at the Mapinhane Administrative Post, specifically in the localities of Muabsa, Mapinhane, and Belane. Mapinhane Administrative Post, specifically in the localities of Muabsa, Mapinhane, and Belane from October to December 2013, whose objective was to evaluate the participation of communities in the communities in the management of uncontrolled burning in the locations where the study was conducted. A methodology used to carry out the data research, was based on the use of the technique of intentional non-probability sampling, where the researcher was only interested and focused on the opinion, action or intention of the selected elements that were deliberately chosen based on the characteristics or information to be collected. It was also used the snowball sampling technique where, where what defined the sample was the saturation point when the answers provided by the interviewees were already uniform with no there were none that contradicted the actions that cause the population to practice burning in each activity. The data collection techniques used in the field were non-participant non-participant observation and semi-structured interviews for a period of 90 days. Thus Therefore, the researcher had to control the relationships in order not to jeopardize his ethical positions or not to expose too much of their weaknesses and ambitions to avoid jeopardizing the the research. From the results obtained during the internship, it was noted that the causes of uncontrolled uncontrolled burning in the Mapinhane PA, are related to the opening of agricultural hunting, renovation of pasture areas, practice of beekeeping, manufacture of charcoal, need for woody fuel, etc. charcoal production, need of woody fuel mainly in large settlements. population. The main environmental, social and economic problems resulting from uncontrolled burning in Vilankulo District - Administrative Post of Mapinhane are: occurrence of erosion, destruction of physical and chemical properties of soils and Reduction of forest areas Creation of community forests and destruction of goods and services. Although there are some strategies to combat uncontrolled burning, on the part of the communities of the Mapinhane Administrative Post there is still inadequate management due to the communities' lack of knowledge of the communities about the importance of a forest, the consequences of burning on the that fires can have on air quality, lack of a physical structure for the formation of environmental management committees and lack of availability of external funds to support the environmental sector. (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)